{"id":45284,"date":"2014-09-06T09:46:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T09:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=45284"},"modified":"2014-09-06T09:46:07","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T09:46:07","slug":"facebook-ready-to-spend-billions-to-bring-whole-world-online-zuckerberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=45284","title":{"rendered":"Facebook ready to spend billions to bring whole world online: Zuckerberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u00a0is prepared to spend billions of dollars to reach its goal of bringing the Internet to everyone on the planet, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we really care about is connecting everyone in the world,&#8221; Zuckerberg said at an event in\u00a0Mexico\u00a0City hosted by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even if it means that\u00a0Facebook\u00a0has to spend billions of dollars over the next decade making this happen, I believe that over the long term its gonna be a good thing for us and for the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Around 3 billion people will have access to the Internet by the end of 2014, according to International Telecommunications Union (ITU) statistics. Almost half that, 1.3 billion people, use Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, the world&#8217;s largest social networking company, launched its Internet.org project last year to connect billions of people without Internet access in places such as Africa and Asia by working with phone operators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that &#8230; when everyone is on the Internet all of our businesses and economies will be better,&#8221; Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook\u00a0is prepared to spend billions of dollars to reach its goal of bringing the Internet to everyone on the planet, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday. &#8220;What we really care about is connecting everyone in the world,&#8221; Zuckerberg said at an event in\u00a0Mexico\u00a0City hosted by Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim. &#8220;Even if it means that\u00a0Facebook\u00a0has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":45285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18,916],"class_list":["post-45284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei","tag-mida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}